#selves

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#barriers #constraints #erect #except #human

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#deciding #each #exists #gone #government

At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it. ↗

— Oliver Reed

#athletic #club #death #eat #food

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#found #foundation #high #how #numerous

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#experienced #only #others #ourselves #pity

Surrender your forces and give yourselves and your troops the opportunity to be a part of Iraq's future and not a part of Iraq's past. ↗

— Peter Pace

#future #give #iraq #opportunity #part

Minimalism seems closest to the sophisticated storytelling of movies. Movies have really educated contemporary audiences to be the most intelligent, sophisticated audiences in history. We don't any longer need to have the relationship between one scene and the next explained. We will figure it out ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#audiences #between #closest #contemporary #educated

It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves. ↗

— James Payn

#before #careful #cases #class #considerable

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

#avoid #belief #calm #change #dissatisfied

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment. ↗

— Dave Pelzer

#basic #basic understanding #better #break #cause